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July Books List

Tuesday, 31 July 2012

Books I've read in July:-

(1) Fast Food Nation: What The All-American Meal Is Doing To The World by Eric Schlosser - Accessible
to anyone who is interested in the fast food industry, and the politics
and economics that go hand in hand with it. I guess if you're reading
this in 2012, then you may have already heard about most of the horrors that
Schlosser goes into detail with, but it's still a worthwhile read and
really easy to pick up whenever you fancy reading it. [5/5]

(2) Delirium by Lauren Oliver - So
disappointing because the concept sounded interesting (it's a YA dystopia about love being seen as a disease and something that they cure people of), but it never
seemed to reach its full potential in the book. The characters felt
very average at best and although the last quarter of the book does make the sequel sound
promising, I don't think I'll be reaching for it just yet. [2/5]

(3) Richard by Ben Myers -Richard
is a fictional account of Richard Edwards (the troubled
songwriter/rhythm guitarist of the Manic Street Preachers who went missing in
1995 and his body was never found) during his last days, told through
his eyes. Although it wasn't my cup of tea prose-wise, I do think the
author did a good job of exploring this concept, though I have no idea
who would actually read this if they weren't a diehard Manics/Richey fan! [2/5]

(4) Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov - I have been meaning to read this for years and after watching the Stanley Kubrick adaptation last month, I finally decided to take this off my book shelf. The subject matter is of course unsettling and disturbing, which makes it a difficult novel to read at leisure so I found myself reading it in chunks throughout the month. I'm glad I've read it because it's a 'classic' and all, but it's not something I'd ever willingly read again. [3/5]

(5) Fifty Shades Freed by E. L James - I
wasn't expecting this series to be anything more than some easy summer
reading trash, but this last book in the trilogy has the most anti-climatic ending! I guess
it fits with how the story was going, but why did it have to end like
that? What happened to the very-mild-naughtiness that made this series
actually bearable to read?! [2/5]

(6) Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway - I struggle reading anything by Hemingway; his writing style is just generally not my thing. Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises
isn't one of this famed 'better' books and I feel that this novel shows
Hemingway to other people in the way that I see most of his work. It's
not terrible or anything, but nothing extraordinary either. Just very
average, but OK if you're looking for a quick summer read that isn't
chick lit. [2/5]

Yeah Lolita is pretty creepy! I like Matched a lot more than Delirium for some reason, I think I got into that one a lot more and preferred the characters. One of the problems with all of these YA dystopias is that they can start to blur into one a bit! x

Lol it is so embarrassing but the only book I've read out of these is Freed. I hated the ending, it just didn't fit with the other 2 books. I started reading Lolita years ago but never finished - it tends to happen a lot with classics :p

I don't know what the author was thinking ending it that way, but I guess it was always going to revert back to a mainstream relationship in the end - dull! I've done that with some classics too, particularly anything Austen, just can't finish them x